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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Bash: kill processes with a given name pattern

As we know the kill command in linux permits to kill a process using its id. kill -9 tries to kill your process even harder. But what if I have many similar processes? We can use the cut function that I recently saw here as shown below:

What it does is: searches the list of processes for lines containing bootstrap.py, then extracts the process id from each line and kills the process.

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